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An ancient Greco-Roman marble statuary group featuring a muscular, bearded man—the priest Laocoön—and his two sons. They are entwined in the thick, writhing coils of two giant snakes. The father’s face is contorted in a visceral expression of agony, while the boys display terror and exhaustion as they are constricted.

Laocoön and His Sons

An ancient Greco-Roman marble statuary group featuring a muscular, bearded man—the priest Laocoön—and his two sons. They are entwined in the thick, writhing coils of two giant snakes. The father’s face is contorted in a visceral expression of agony, while the boys display terror and exhaustion as they are constricted.

Laocoön and His Sons

An ancient Greco-Roman marble statuary group featuring a muscular, bearded man—the priest Laocoön—and his two sons. They are entwined in the thick, writhing coils of two giant snakes. The father’s face is contorted in a visceral expression of agony, while the boys display terror and exhaustion as they are constricted.

Laocoön and His Sons

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